Universität Wien

030393 SE Seminar of Legal History - Africa in the League of Nations era (2024W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 3 - Rechtswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 35 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Preliminary discussion:
Tuesday, 08.10.2024, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Further block dates:;
Tuesday, November 5, 2024, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Tuesday, December 20, 2024, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Monday 13 and Tuesday, 14.01.2025 (exact times to be announced).

  • Tuesday 08.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum SEM33 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG (Kickoff Class)
  • Tuesday 22.10. 11:15 - 12:45 Seminarraum SEM41 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 4.OG
  • Tuesday 05.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum SEM41 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 4.OG
  • Monday 13.01. 09:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum SEM51 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum 5.OG
  • Tuesday 14.01. 09:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum SEM31 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Seminar from Legal History - Africa in the Era of the League of Nations

The seminar takes place in the winter semester as a block seminar in Vienna.

The preliminary meeting will take place on Tuesday, 08.10.2024 at 10:00 am. The preparatory units of the coming months will be published promptly on Uspace and Moodle and in these a further thematic focus as well as the specification of the individual seminar topics will take place.

Assessment and permitted materials

You will be graded based upon a seminar paper (25–30 pages, 50,000 characters, including footnotes and spaces), your oral participation and presentation of a topic during the block seminar. During this session, the results of your own work should be presented and put up for discussion with a thesis paper (approx. 7 pages) and, if necessary, an excerpt from the source. The final version of your seminar paper must be submitted digitally as Word-format to nicole.schnalzer@univie.ac.at and in paper (2x).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Raoul Jacobs, Mandat und Treuhand im Völkerrecht, Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2004
Michael D. Callahan, Mandates and empire. 1, The League of Nations and Africa, 1914-1931, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press 1999.
Michael D. Callahan, Mandates and empire. 2, A sacred trust: the League of Nations and Africa, 1929-1946, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press 2004.
Sonderegger/Grau/Englert, Afrika im 20. Jahrhundert: Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Wien: Promedia- Verlag 2011.
Arno Sonderegger, Afrika und die Welt, Betrachtungen zur Globalgeschichte Afrikas in der Neuzeit, Bonn 2022.
Joanna Lunt, The League of Nations health organization: Water, health and development in colonial Africa, 1925-40, in: dies., The League of Nations’ Work on Social Issues, 167-184.
Susan Pederson, The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Albert Adu Boahen (Hs.), General history of Africa, VII. Africa under colonial domination, 1880-1935, 1985.
Ali A. Mazrui, General history of Africa, VIII: Africa since 1935, 1993.
Márcia Gonçalves, The Scramble for Africa Reloaded? Portugal, European Colonial Claims and the Distribution of Colonies in the 1930s, in: Contemporary European History (2021), 30, 2-15.
William E. Rappard, Zur Soziologie des Mandatsystems, in: Zeitschrift für Politik, Vol. 18 (1929), 1-18.
Africanus, Africa and the League of Nations, in: Journal of the Royal African Society, Jul. 1920, Vol. 19, No. 76, 317-319.
Benedikt Rieß, Die außereuropäische Welt und der Völkerbund – Entstehung und Transfer internationaler Normen, Veranstaltungsbericht
Regula Ludi, Setting New Standards: International Feminism and the League of Nation’ Inquiry into the Status of Women, in: Journal of Women's History, Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 2019, 12-36.
Susan Pedersen, Metaphors of the Schoolroom: Women Working the Mandates System of the League of Nations, in: History Workshop Journal, Issue 66, 2008.
Benedetta Rossi, Periodizing the End of Slavery Colonial Law, the League of Nations, and Slave Resistance in the Nigerien Sahel, 1920s – 1930s, in: Annales HSS; 72; no 4 (2017), 605-640.
Jessica R. Pliley, Claims to Protection: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Abolitionism in the League of Nations' Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children, 1919–1936, in: Journal of Women's History, Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2010, 90-113.

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